The 10 Best Creatine Supplements of 2017

This page lists my 10 best creatine supplements for 2017. With so many new and fancy products hitting the shelves all the time, it’s important to separate the wheat from the chaff.

It seems that every multi-million dollar sports & nutrition outfit wants to jump on the creatine supplement bandwagon these days. And why wouldn’t they? After all, the industry is worth billions.

Too much competition, though, has resulted in some crazy marketing. And as there’s no strict regulation for nutritional supplements, we can see some outrageous claims and overhyped products.

Quality Creatine: A Practical Guide for Bodybuilders

The purpose of this short guide is to highlight the proven creatine products. These are the ones that real supplement users take. They’re the people who write reviews, giving their personal opinions.

You won’t find any blinding science reviews here, or overly technical jargon. My readers want to know names of products, their reputation, and the expected results, so that’s what I provide, nothing more.

What Does Creatine Do—Exactly?

You can think of ATP as high-energy molecules that provide the power needed for working muscles. What creatine supplements do is increase the amount of fuel that powers ATP in your muscles.

There’s more to it than this, but the above describes the basics of what creatine does. And although fish and meat contains creatine, and the body produces some naturally, there’s always room for more.

My Top 10 Creatine Products for 2017

After much reading and reviewing, my final top ten creatine picks are:

Universal Nutrition Creatine

Micronized Creatine by Optimum Nutrition

MuscleTech Platinum 100% Creatine

Dymatize Creatine Monohydrate

ON Creatine monohydrate

StrengthSeries Creatine HMB

Best Creatine by BPI Sports

CON-CRET by ProMera Sports

Beast Sports Nutrition Creature

Cellucor C4 Fourth Generation

#1 Universal Nutrition Creatine

Universal Nutrition Creatine is my top pick for good reason. It’s a simple yet very effective creatine powder made in Germany. I like the fact that it uses 100% unadulterated creatine monohydrate.

The great thing about this product is that it delivers optimal results with little fuss. In other words, it doesn’t rely on unnecessary sweeteners, other ingredients, or fillers that some products do.

Universal Nutrition Creatine does what it says on the label. It will stimulate your muscle growth and shorten your recovery time after a hard workout.

And because it’s a ‘micronized” formula, that makes it much easier to mix and digest.

#2 Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Powder

This is another simple, yet highly-effective creatine product. If you need to boost your energy levels, increase strength, and enjoy more endurance, consider this supplement.

Like the first choice, there are no unnecessary fillers included in the product, or any of that other junk found in some lesser supplements. The only ingredient is 100% pure micronized creatine monohydrate.

Creatine monohydrate is the most researched and the most effective of all creatine supplements.

#3 MuscleTech Platinum 100% Creatine

My third pick is another quality, effective powder. It uses pure 100% micronized creatine, so you can be sure it’ll provide the boost you need to excel at the gymnasium.

MuscleTech Platinum 100% Creatine sports the usual highlights of the other two. However, some users complain of the taste. The way to get around this is to simply mix it with a tasty, strong-favored drink.

#4 Dymatize Creatine Monohydrate

If you want 100% pure pharmaceutical-grade creatine, look no further than Dymatize Creatine Monohydrate. This is a high-quality, unmixed creatine that assists optimal high-intensity performance.

This clinically proven supplement complies with a stringent molecular formula. It’s a muscle hydrator, cell volumizer, an ATP Activator, and much more. You can get it in either powdered form or capsules.

#5 ON Creatine Monohydrate

A single teaspoon provides you with 5g of 99.9% pure Creapure® creatine monohydrate. It’s a flavorless powder that’s easy to mix into water, any flavored juice, or a protein shake, post-workout.ON Creatine Monohydrate is a popular choice with sporty folks who like to also train with weights. Used on a regular basis it assists with muscle development, strength, and improved power.

#6 StrengthSeries Creatine HMB

The last thing you need when working on your strength and fitness is to stuff your body with unnecessary junk. The good news is that this product is free of color dyes, fillers, artificial sweeteners, and other harmful additives.

StrengthSeries Creatine HMB is a quality supplement by Transparent Labs. It includes creatine monohydrate and HMB (β-Hydroxy β-Methylbutyrate) at precise clinically-effective dosages.

Combined at the right dosage, HMB and creatine monohydrate will improve strength and augment endurance. It also helps to decrease fat mass while preventing the loss of lean muscle.

#7 Best Creatine by BPI Sports

Combined, these six creatine types help with muscle gains, increased strength, and aid faster post workout recovery. This product also supports cellular hydration which should help to delay fatigue.This is a pro muscle building and strength supplement. It does get mixed reviews, though more good than bad, hence its position here. Best Creatine contains six advanced forms of quality creatine.

Not everyone likes or trusts creatine products with multiple ingredients. This is because there’s a lot of overhyping out there with some brands. But if you want to try one, Best Creatine is a worthy choice.

#8 Promera Sports Con-Cret

Promera Sports Con-Cret should provide most users with extra energy during workouts. It’s a product that some claim really helps them to maximize their training in the gym or on the track.This is an effective creatine supplement that uses pure creatine hydrochloride or HCL. The reason behind adding a hydrochloride group to the creatine is to enhance its overall stability.

This creatine supplement is highly soluble (dissolves easily), and digests quickly in the body. It’s particularly popular with women as there’s no bloating—a common side-effect with some supplements.

Other reasons to like this product include: no water retention, and no GI issues. There’s no need for loading or cycling either. You just take a small daily micro dose based on your own body weight.

Promera Sports Con-Cret doesn’t have as much research to back it up as the more standard creatine products. It costs more too. Despite these drawbacks, it still looks promising.

#9 Beast Sports Nutrition Creature

In 2015, Bodybuilding.com gave it the best creatine Supplement of the Year Award. Overall, this is a great value for money supplement and well-received by the wider industry.This is another advanced product that uses five different creatine forms. Creature’s special blend of ingredients helps to fuel muscle development. It’s a good choice if you want to pack on a lot of muscle.

Beast Sports Nutrition is no stranger to first-rate fitness supplements. But it’s their Creature product here that has put their name firmly on the forefront of trusted brands.

#10 Cellucor C4 Fourth Generation

One ingredient is creatine nitrate. This combines muscle-building creatine along with some pump-inducing nitrate. Other ingredients include: CarnoSyn® Beta-Alanine, caffeine, and arginine AKG.I had to include one of the creatine cocktails in this list. Although skepticism surrounds many of these products, the Cellucor C4 Fourth Generation has a lot of dedicated followers and some great reviews.

I haven’t personally tried this supplement but there are millions who have. Reviewers talk of heightened focus and more explosive energy than they ever knew possible.

This is a popular pre-workout formula with beginners as well as professionals.

Hello Mohamed,
You have picked an interesting subject for your site. So many people think about doing weights but not so many get around to it.
If I was doing this I would have tried to sell weight training to the skinny people first. Why would a skinny person want to bulk up. There are a great many reasons ; attractiveness, health, self-confidence, better sporting performance and so on. I would also have definitely made a point of including women in my readership.
I would have liked you to be more definite about the weight training programs. Could you have given the program followed by a well known body builder and perhaps a footballer and a woman swimmer. Skinny athletes have to put on muscle to improve performance.You did give a definite answer when you wrote that lifting heavy weights and gradually increasing the weights has been shown to be the most effective way of putting on muscle. I would have liked to have seen more definite and proven facts.
Fashions and ideas change but I can remember body builders doing many reps of quite light weights. This was many years ago and they sure bulked up. But as it was easy to get chemical assistance they probably didn’t have to do too much to bulk up. Those who were doing weights to increase their sporting ability used low reps of heavy weights. At one gym there was a group of young Asians trying to bulk up. They were small, lean, strong and wiry but could not match their Caucasian friends in weight gains.
I liked the Conclusion part of the first page. There are some definite answers to questions.
On your page on Nutrition I noticed you did not mention eggs. Many years ago my coach told me I had to eat eggs as important part of my protein diet as well as at least one litre of milk a day. He also emphasized vegetables in a time that they were not considered important. I know ideas change but maybe you could look at eggs and milk. Maybe my coach was wrong because I was a failure in my sport.
Mohamed I think you are on to something good here and I wish you success.
Bill

I plan on adding much more to the site as I go along thanks for the tips!

One thing I wanna comment on about your comment is bodybuilders doing low weight high rep workouts. Its true it does work for them. With the steroids they use they can gain muscle lifting ants all day.